father<\/a> escaped as she was a little bit ahead.<\/p>\n\u201cWe saw what happened, the man is a blind beggar who was crossing the road with the help of his daughter.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey were almost at the centre of the road, they wanted to cross and pass through the roundabout but were very unlucky as a tipper driver crushed him on the head and he died instantly, but nothing happened to the daughter,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
As of the time of filling this report, newsmen report that some tipper drivers were on ground to direct vehicular movement.<\/p>\n
The dead beggar has been evacuated to a nearby mortuary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A beggar who was about crossing the Benin-Auchi road to the opposite side, around the by-pass was crushed to death by a tipper driver in the early hours of Saturday, July 3rd, 2021. Newsmen gathered from eyewitness that the daughter who was crossing her father escaped as she was a little bit ahead. \u201cWe saw […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":54035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1626,7173,48,75,12425],"class_list":["post-54033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","tag-blind-man","tag-crushes","tag-death","tag-edo","tag-tipper"],"yoast_head":"\n
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